\section[Antagonist Organizations]{Antagonistic Organizations}
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\quot{``Actually, those guys are just bastards. We fight them.''}

\desc{What makes an antagonist organization different from a ``normal'' organization in the World of Darkness is not that they are ``the bad guys'' -- after all it is abundantly clear that a substantial number of people in \emph{all} the supernatural societies are \emph{bad guys}. These organizations are filled with blood drinking \emph{monsters}. No, the salient thing about the Antagonists in this setting is that they are not willing to live and let live with the members of other covenants and cults. So while it is entirely possible to have a story in which one character is from the Camarilla and another is from the Carthians, it is basically impossible to have a cogent story in which one character is in the Marduk Society and the other characters are not.}

\desc{The assumption then is that the antagonist organizations will be NPC only. The player characters will be members of the standard covenants or independents and as such the warriors of the Shattered Empire who show up at all will do so as enemies. It is entirely possible to play a campaign in which every character is a member of the Marduk society, and that's fine. If you weren't OK with playing a game that skated closely to the edge of evil you wouldn't be playing a game about vampires and werewolves.}

\desc{However, it's equally important to note that just because the King With Three Shadows may be a \emph{villain} who is basically \emph{at war} with the World Crime League, that does not mean that anyone is automatically on kill-on-sight terms with anyone else. Even these antagonistic organizations have diplomatic ties of some sort or another with all of the major covenants. These ties are \emph{strained}, and ambassadors are sometimes recalled, but actual shooting wars have causes, beginnings, and negotiated \emph{ends}.}

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